I advise you to reply dryly and sharply that the facts (such and such) refute their accusations of Rakovsky and others entirely and, if they write in this tone, we shall declare them not Communists but hooligans1*.

Fond 2, op. 2, d. 182, fol. 2 - autograph.

1* The note was accompanied by an envelope with Lenin's inscription: "Secretly in person, to Mr. Chicherin (from Lenin) against signature".

1Written on a note from G.V.Chicherin to Lenin dated July 15, 1919: "the sending of such radios by this arrogant boy is absolutely inadmissible. After all, Rakovsky is one of the best figures of the International. And in the interests of the cause, it is impossible to publicly show off like this..." In Chicherin's correspondence with Lenin, it is about the sharp in form telegram of B.. Kuhn H.G.Rakovsky on the arrest in Berlin K.B.Radek. In this connection Lenin wrote to Kuhn: "I ask you not to worry too much and not to give in to despair. Your accusations or suspicions against Chicherin and Rakovsky are absolutely devoid of any foundation" (Lenin V.I. Complete Works, vol. 51, p. 27).

185а

ADDRESS TO THE LEADING WORKERS1

July 1919.

Comrades! Knowing the strict character of Comrade Trotsky's order, I am so convinced, so absolutely convinced, of the correctness, expediency and necessity for the good of the cause of the order given by Comrade Trotsky that I support this order wholeheartedly.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

Published - The Trotsky papers. 1917-1922. V. 1, p. 588.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 27058 - autograph.

1The appeal was written by Lenin on the blank letterhead of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. With regard to this appeal L.D.Trotsky recalled: "When he (Lenin) handed it to me, and at the bottom of the blank page were written these lines, I was perplexed. He said to me: "It has come to my attention that rumors are being started against you that you are shooting Communists. I give you such a form, and I can give you as many of them as you like, that I approve of your decisions, and at the top of the page you can write any decision and it will have my signature ready on it." This was in July 1919" (Trotsky L. Stalin's School of Falsifications. Moscow, 1990, p. 61).